{"id":9841,"date":"2009-02-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"sec-enforcement-chief-linda-thomsen-resigns-replacement-not-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2009\/sec-enforcement-chief-linda-thomsen-resigns-replacement-not-named.html","title":{"rendered":"SEC enforcement chief Linda Thomsen resigns, replacement not named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lethbridge Herald &#8211;&nbsp;The top cop at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is leaving the government less than a week after receiving an angry dressing-down before Congress over the agency&#8217;s failure to detect a massive alleged fraud scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The SEC said Monday that Linda Thomsen is leaving to pursue opportunities in the private sector, but did not provide further details. She has been the agency&#8217;s enforcement director since May 2005, under two previous SEC chairmen.<\/p>\n<p>A replacement for Thomsen wasn&#8217;t named. The leading candidate was Robert Khuzami, a former federal prosecutor who is managing director and general counsel of investment firm Deutsche Bank.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.lethbridgeherald.com\/content\/view\/30500\/31\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lethbridge Herald &#8211;&nbsp;The top cop at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is leaving the government less than a week after receiving an angry dressing-down before Congress over the agency&#8217;s failure to detect a massive alleged fraud scheme. The SEC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7269,621,7271,6108,2054,1405,7266,7270,402,7265,5369,6277,7267,35,21,7268],"class_list":["post-9841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-chairmen","tag-congress","tag-cop","tag-deutsche-bank","tag-failure","tag-former-federal-prosecutor","tag-fraud-scheme","tag-general-counsel","tag-investment-firm","tag-lethbridge-herald","tag-managing-director","tag-private-sector","tag-robert-khuzami","tag-securities-and-exchange","tag-securities-and-exchange-commission","tag-thomsen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}